Here’s what we know about Dylann Roof, the man who walked into a Charleston church and reportedly killed nine black parishioners at a prayer meeting.

According to The Daily Beast, a high school classmate said, "He made a lot of racist jokes, but you don’t really take them seriously like that." But then the friend added that now, in the wake of the shooting, "the things he said were kind of not joking."

We also know that his Facebook photo showed a picture of Roof wearing a jacket with two African flags on it: One was tied to apartheid-era South Africa; the other Rhodesia, which was a racist state ruled by a white-minority for years before they lost power to the black majority. (Eventually, the country gained its independence as Zimbabwe.) Both flags are symbols used in white supremacist circles as a way to show your commitment to the white supremacist cause without drawing the negative attention that a Swastika would bring.

We know that according to a witness to the shooting that he said "I have to do it. You’re raping our women and taking over the country. You have to go."

And finally, we now know that after he was arrested, he confessed to the crime saying that he hoped it would start a race war.

So of course the idiots on Fox & Friends would claim racism had nothing to do with it:

Nowadays, to say that a segment on Fox News is maddening is redundant. Willful ignorance of the plight and problems that the black community faces at the hands of racism could practically be the name of a show on Fox News. (Willful Ignorance of the Plight and Problems That the Black Community Faces at the Hands of Racism every night at 6pm... and 5pm... And really 9am-through 5pm too... Late nights also. Only on Fox News!) To try to claim that Roof’s actions were motivated by a hate of Christians is almost criminally misleading for a group of people who consider themselves journalists. I mean the situation basically reduces to this imagined conversation:

FOX NEWS: "I wonder why Dylann Roof did this? It must be the Christian thing."

POLICE: "It’s a hate crime. Witnesses say Dylann Roof said it was because of race while committing the crime."

FOX NEWS: "I wonder why Dylann Roof did this? It must be the Christian thing."

PEOPLE WHO KNOW DYLANN ROOF: "Yeah, he was a racist."

FOX NEWS: "I wonder why Dylann Roof did this? It must be the Christian thing."

DYLANN ROOF: "I did it because I hate black people and wanted to start a race war."

FOX NEWS: "I wonder why Dylann Roof did this? It must be the Christian thing."

They should be ashamed of themselves. Of course they won’t be. But they should be.